A group of Israelis has launched a grass-roots effort to get people living in the Jewish state who are eligible to vote in the United States to line up behind Rudy Giuliani, it was reported yesterday.

The group, Giuliani Supporters in Israel, was launched by Mordechai Twersky, a onetime candidate for state Assembly in The Bronx in the early 1990s, according the Jerusalem Post.

Twersky has established a Web site, giulianisupportersinisrael.org, with background information including Giuliani’s famed eviction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from a Lincoln Center concert in 1995.

“I did this as a private personal initiative, as a proud American and Israeli citizen, and I am confident that it will catch on,” Twersky told the paper.

He said the campaign hadn’t set up his group, but that he’s been in contact with Team Giuliani since he got started.

Giuliani has historically been popular with Jewish voters, and took a hard pro-Israel line when he was in office. Giuliani’s campaign didn’t return The Post’s calls for comment.

However, members of the group Republicans Abroad in Israel told the Jerusalem Post that they will sit on the sidelines during the GOP primary and then support the party’s nominee.

In some past elections, planeloads of Israelis with American citizenship have flown to the United States to vote.

Giuliani was in Texas yesterday, giving a speech at Texas A&M University, home of the first President George Bush’s presidential library.